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Show The question, Do we eat too much in summer is being discussed. The Philadelphia Ledger thinks we do, and believes tho great mistake in summer diet is that it does not take the place of tho winter bill of fare, as it should. The habit of most people is simply to add summer lux uries to the winter diet, thus imposing impos-ing additional labor on the digestive organs, whioh in reality they are less able to perform than iu winter. There is doubtless logic in this, hut as a rule the consumption of flesh is much less in summer than in winter for the reason that the appetite does notcrave it so keenly. Overloading the stomach at any Beaeon of the year is injurious to health, and especially 0 in hot weather when the digestive organs are in a relaxed and semi-torpid semi-torpid condition, and disinclined to perform any extra amount of labor. A purely vegetable diet during the summer months might bo best adapted to the constitutions of many persons, but there are others whose physical condition absolutely requires a judicious judi-cious blending of summer and winter win-ter fare. |